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http://sitebar.org/ is there but it doesn't have support for tags last time I checked. I'm in the same boat as you are, guess we just need to develop those capabilities now.

Take a look at sitebar at http://sitebar.org/. It is open-source, and easy to install on your own server. There is a Firefox plugin that allows you to use it as a sidebar. I've been using it for several months.

Take a look at http://www.sitebar.org/

This does pretty much exactly the same as Google offering, except you can run it on your own server.

You can even set it up with different accounts to allow friends to use it.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned SiteBar yet.. it works with Firefox and IE, and it lets you setup *your own SiteBar server*, so if you do it behind some HTTPS, and you trust the machine the server is running on, you end up with a secure way of storing your bookmarks.

I looked at Foxmarks, and they don't even let you run your own server? Feh.

SiteBar http://sitebar.org/ is a pretty good php/MySQL webapp.

Usual disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Sitebar or its development, just a majorly satisfied user.

SiteBar is another option if you want to have non-social bookmarks (I think) on your own server. But if that's not important, I would really recomend Spurl.net!

SiteBar is the most powerful, and yet simple, bookmark manager out there. (I know because I started the project and handed it off to a brilliant programmer!)

Based on what you've said, you may well be right. What you described in your posting is something I've been thinking about for while; if someone else has developed it already, great!

However, before you get to carried away with your own magnificence, you might want to tell your 'brilliant programmer' friend to work on the website a bit.

From my visit to sitebar.org, I'd be hard pressed to tell you what Sitebar actually does. There's no FAQ or "What is Sitebar?" in the page contents list. The bulk of the home page is dedicated to telling me all about the wonderful new features in v3.3 and the availability of professional hosting, and the ability to get access to "Athena" and "Biju"'s bookmarks (whoever they are). The users documentation is apparently "coming soon".

The most detail I could find was the 2 line advertising-esque tagline under the main page title, and the "Main Features" sidebar (what a concept - Main features, reduced to a bullet list under the page index), which reduces the core description of sitebar to "Bookmark import/export".

The 5 line description that you have posted on Slashdot is a better description than anything I could find easily on the sitebar homepage. Based on what I found out from the webpage, there's no chance I'd be installing it. Based on the description from your post, it might be worth a try.

Oh - and as a side note - nothing makes me say "bullshit" faster than a product that declares itself to be the most powerful in the world. Ever notice how Google doesn't ever call itself the most powerful or best search engine in the world? It just is - and people recognise it as such. Self-granted accolates sound false, and are. Putting "we're the best" on the top of everything you do is a sure-fire way to come off looking like a professional wanker, hopelessly naive, or both.

Just a few helpful suggestions... :-)
Russ %-)

SiteBar is the most powerful, and yet simple, bookmark manager out there. (I know because I started the project and handed it off to a brilliant programmer!)

It's a bookmark *server*, so you don't have to even be at your own computer to have all your bookmarks organized.

It runs in either your sidebar (beautiful in Firefox), main window, a stand-alone pop-up, your menu, an RSS feed, or embedded in any web page.

It's OSS, written in PHP/MySQL (port it if you'd like) so you can run your own server if you'd like
or use one of any number of public SiteBar servers which other people run.

It does link checking, expires old dead links, shows favicons in it's tree, has full users and groups if you want a multi-user setup, and fine granular control over editing/adding/deleting/viewing if you want to run it in your intranet.

You can simply import your current bookmark file (any format!), synch between installs, export to a different bookmark file, or use it from the server itself.

Check it out... let me know what you think mindslip.com>

I think the poster is looking for sorting techniques. But for me my big problem was replication to all my desktops. So while the sorting is no better then folders/subfolders, I like: http://sitebar.org/

Check out www.sitebar.org for the solution to your bookmark woes.

Granted, this adds a touch of complexity, but not much. And if such a plugin became available, I imagine that people would step in to offer free or cheap hosting. But as I said, though I think there are advantages to a databased backed solution, I would be happy with any solution that works. Someone posted Sitebar, which looks promising. I haven't had a chance to look at it too closely yet, but it might work...

It's meant for a browser's sidebar, and integrates tightly with IE, FireFox (via XPI), Opera, and of course Mozilla.

It also runs in it's own separate window, in the body of the browser, or even as an embedded section of any web page or blog app!

You can display your bookmarks with any of the included plug-ins, which include the standard multi-folder tree, an RSS feed, and a Google/Yahoo-like layout, which is more of what you may be looking for.

It's been designed from the ground, up with both small and large-scale needs in mind. It can handle multiple trees per user, with multiple groups/users per tree, and granular permissions (view/add/edit/delete/moderate) per link/folder. It's fully skinnable, and runs on any PHP/MySQL/Apache setup!

Go grab it or sign up!

mindslip
Creator, SiteBar.

It's meant for a browser's sidebar, and integrates tightly with IE, FireFox (via XPI), Opera, and of course Mozilla.

It also runs in it's own separate window, in the body of the browser, or even as an embedded section of any web page or blog app!

You can display your bookmarks with any of the included plug-ins, which include the standard multi-folder tree, an RSS feed, and a Google/Yahoo-like layout, which is more of what you may be looking for.

It's been designed from the ground, up with both small and large-scale needs in mind. It can handle multiple trees per user, with multiple groups/users per tree, and granular permissions (view/add/edit/delete/moderate) per link/folder. It's fully skinnable, and runs on any PHP/MySQL/Apache setup!

Go grab it or sign up!

mindslip
Creator, SiteBar.

It's meant for a browser's sidebar, and integrates tightly with IE, FireFox (via XPI), Opera, and of course Mozilla.

It also runs in it's own separate window, in the body of the browser, or even as an embedded section of any web page or blog app!

You can display your bookmarks with any of the included plug-ins, which include the standard multi-folder tree, an RSS feed, and a Google/Yahoo-like layout, which is more of what you may be looking for.

It's been designed from the ground, up with both small and large-scale needs in mind. It can handle multiple trees per user, with multiple groups/users per tree, and granular permissions (view/add/edit/delete/moderate) per link/folder. It's fully skinnable, and runs on any PHP/MySQL/Apache setup!

Go grab it or sign up!

mindslip
Creator, SiteBar.

It's meant for a browser's sidebar, and integrates tightly with IE, FireFox (via XPI), Opera, and of course Mozilla.

It also runs in it's own separate window, in the body of the browser, or even as an embedded section of any web page or blog app!

You can display your bookmarks with any of the included plug-ins, which include the standard multi-folder tree, an RSS feed, and a Google/Yahoo-like layout, which is more of what you may be looking for.

It's been designed from the ground, up with both small and large-scale needs in mind. It can handle multiple trees per user, with multiple groups/users per tree, and granular permissions (view/add/edit/delete/moderate) per link/folder. It's fully skinnable, and runs on any PHP/MySQL/Apache setup!

Go grab it or sign up!

mindslip
Creator, SiteBar.

Try Sitebar. It runs on a PHP/MySQL server (public servers available) and there are plugins/extensions for major browsers.